Calvin Kim (B.1992, Los Angeles) currently lives and works in New York City. In 2023, Kim received his M.F.A. in Visual Arts from Columbia University. In 2015, Kim received his B.F.A. and B.A. in Psychology at Cornell University, and was a recipient of the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship to attend Yale Norfolk. Calvin Kim makes paintings and sculptures that engage questions of time, memory, and transformation as they persist within the layers of natural and man-made materials. His paintings often use humor, softness, and stupidity as an emotive stance for the rupturing condition of everyday living with hope and wonder.